Plant Manager

The vital Plant Manager role comes with a salary of up to c.£90,000 + c.£8,000 car allowance per annum + excellent bonus + private healthcare + other benefits.

The plant is currently in construction phase and as Plant Manager, you will play a critical role to recruit the full Operations and Maintenance Team through the mobilisation period through to full operational handover from the EPC contractor.

If you’re a Plant Manager, or experienced Operations/Engineering Manager, and are looking to work for a leading organisation who invests in training and professional development of their employees, then upload your CV to apply today.

Reporting to the Head of Operations, you will be responsible for:

• Guide the plant through the full mobilisation phase including construction, commissioning through to full operational handover
• Implementing & maintaining the relevant management systems to operate this new Energy from Waste plant including identifying process improvements to maximise opportunity and resole root causes of issues as they arise.
• Play a pivotal role in the recruitment of the full Operations and Maintenance Team.
• Ensure plant availability, waste throughput and energy production targets are being met
• Full site compliance for all health, safety, environmental and quality issues including overseeing permits, audits, inspections & ISO compliance (OHSAS18001, ISO9001, ISO14001)
• Liaise with key stakeholders (Local Authority, Environment Agency, HSE etc) including the EPC Contractor for identifying build issues and regular Construction meetings.
• Full P&L responsibility for the site relating to CAPEX and OPEX budgets

• Ideally qualified with a degree in a relevant engineering field
• Would be highly beneficial to have an IOSH or NEBOSH Health and Safety Qualification

The Plant Manager role would suit someone who has:

• Prior senior management experience within a heavy process engineering environment such as Power (EfW, Biomass, CCGT, Coal, etc), Refineries, Petrochemicals, COMAH sites, etc.
• Mobilisation experience of a power generation site will be highly advantageous
• Excellent leadership skills with proven experience in successfully achieving plant KPI’s.
• Familiar with Engineering standards and legislation such as PSSR, LOLER, PUWER etc.
• Budget/Commercial/Strategic experience.

• A basic salary of c.£90,000
• Excellent Bonus %
• Car allowance of c.£8,000 per annum
• Private healthcare
• Other excellent benefits